ABSTRACT
The chapter title refers to both the three distinct parts of the story and the three different senses of being in the moment in the work of Martin Heidegger. In the first part, Stewart Joyner is a high school basketball player whose authentic comportment to the moment always reveals the perfect play. In the second part, Stewart finds that basketball and music both have a history that grounds what may appear on the court and on his iPhone. His search for this ground leads him into roots music and politics. Then, in the third act, Stewart gives up the quest to find the true ground in favor of being more open to the moment. The explication considers these three acts in terms of three periods in Heidegger’s biography and work. The first, “the moment of vision,” appeared in Being & Time. The second corresponds to Heidegger’s tragic period of complicity with Nazism. And the third, “the Turn” to Gellassenheit, corresponds to Heidegger’s late work and such poetic concepts as “the Fourfold.”
